Is there an error in the XML feeds again...

Halifax--lad · Post by **Halifax--lad** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:17 pm

Some users are showing the 12/01/2006 for their last update on this service mine is showing the correct date todays.

see this thread

http://forum.setiuk.com/viewtopic.php?t=2411 just look at the sigs Chiefs is on the 12/01/2006 whilst mine is on 14/06/2006

Post by **Neil** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:15 pm

Hi,

The Seti stats haven't updated for the last two days for the following reasons:

13th -> MySQL query timed out and the script aborted.
14th -> MySQL server shutdown (a new error message for me!)

The error message from the 13th is quite common with the larger projects as there's a lot of data to crunch through.

The reason mine and other people's stats show the 14th is because this is the date of the newest stats out of all the projects we crunch for. As Chief only crunches for Seti, his sig shows the 12th, which is correct for now.

Hopefully the update should go ok tonight.

As always, you can check out the status of the databases at http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/info.php.

Hope this helps,

Neil.

Halifax--lad · Post by **Halifax--lad** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:19 pm

thanks for the quick response neil

also another person of the team reckons the site here is down as he cant get to it which is obviously not true as we are both here

any ideas what may be wrong at their end? they can get on other websites just not this one

Post by **Neil** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:21 pm

He could try the following (at a command prompt):

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nslookup www.mundayweb.com
ping www.mundayweb.com

If it can't find the site, then something is up with the DNS. It would be interesting to know his ISP.

Neil.

Post by **Neil** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:25 pm

Just read the latest posts in that thread. It's got to be his ISP or his Firewall settings.

Neil.

Halifax--lad · Post by **Halifax--lad** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:27 pm

ok will let him know, the other strange thing is that he is unable to see peoples sigs that are posted in the forums so yup I guess it could be getting blocked out for some reason

Post by **Neil** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:29 pm

Halifax--lad wrote:...strange thing is that he is unable to see peoples sigs that are posted in the forums...

That's cos he can't access the MundayWeb domain. I would suspect that he won't be able to access any of the other sites hosted by my host either.

Neil.

Post by **Neil** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:31 pm

Conversation moved to MSN...

Villan · Post by **Villan** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:21 am

hmmm ... surley the mirror sends the data to the forums ... not via mundayweb.com?

Chief · Post by **Chief** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:11 am

Still can not have my desktop widget updated, i have downloaded both user and team and get the same info from 12/1/06

clarkf1 · Post by **clarkf1** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 3:23 am

The latest stats update from SETI is still 12/1/06

I expect the update will be run later today as per normal and it should update with the latest.

Chief · Post by **Chief** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:32 am

Hi Neil

Updates seem to be working now, thanks

Regards

Richard

Halifax--lad · Post by **Halifax--lad** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:05 pm

Neil wrote:He could try the following (at a command prompt):
Code: Select all
nslookup www.mundayweb.com
ping www.mundayweb.com
If it can't find the site, then something is up with the DNS. It would be interesting to know his ISP.

Neil.

Hi Neil just to let you know his ISP is Tiscali

and this is the result from the nslookup

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>ping http://www.mundayweb.com

Pinging mundayweb.com [69.93.254.178] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 69.93.254.178:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>nslookup http://www.mundayweb.com
*** Can't find server name for address 80.225.248.50: No response from server
Server: birm-cache-2.ns.uk.tiscali.com
Address: 80.225.248.58

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mundayweb.com
Address: 69.93.254.178
Aliases: http://www.mundayweb.com

C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>

Post by **Neil** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:48 pm

Villan wrote:hmmm ... surley the mirror sends the data to the forums ... not via mundayweb.com?

Nope...

Remember that users URLs point to the MundayWeb domain and the site holds all the data, not the mirrors - they only generate the graphics.

What happens is this:

1. Request is received by the stats.php scripts
2. User data found and retreived
3. Mirror URL is randomly chosen and header request issued to redirect the user's browser to the mirror
4. Mirror script receives request with the necessary variables to create the user's graphic.
5. Ta-da!

Neil.

Post by **Neil** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:50 pm

Halifax--lad wrote:Hi Neil just to let you know his ISP is Tiscali

I have no idea why he can't access the site. I haven't had any e-mails from anyone else saying they can't access the site, but then my e-mail account is a MundayWeb based one!!

Are there any other Tiscali users out there??

Neil.